"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." - J.K. Rowling

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway

“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” - Dr. Seuss

"Nothing in the world is permanent and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” - W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

“…nothing whips my blood like verse.” - William Carlos Williams

"He fills you up just to deplete you later. You can only have him in bed. Outside of it, you can’t have anything. You’re stripped of your rights. Don’t act surprised. You know better than to act surprised. Just get out. He’s a dead-end. He won’t let you love him. Never will. You’re loving brick and mortar. Not a human body. You can love more than a wall. Hell, you need to love more than a wall. He leaves. You lay in bed just a little longer so you can linger with his smells. You decide that you hate him. He hates you. No, wait. That’s still not right. You hate yourself.” - Ryan O'Connell, Why He Will Never Love You

“For a second, I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.” - Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body. Your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before I met you, I relied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm, you play upon me, drumming me taut.” - Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.” - Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” - C.S. Lewis

"It’s said it takes seven years 
to grow completely new skin cells.



To think, this year I will grow
 into a body you never will



have touched." -

 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins